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Huawei Technologies shipped out 2.8 million more mobile phones than Microsoft's Lumina division during 2015's second quarter, taking the number three spot in smartphone shipments among worldwide vendors. The Chinese tech company's selling 30.6 million phones and earning 7 percent of the worldwide market in Q2 was a record for Huawei.
The sales figures were reported by the analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Huawei shipped 30.6 million mobile devices in Q2, while Microsoft delivered 27.8 million units.
Meanwhile, global smartphone shipments increased by a "lackluster" 2 percent, according to eWEEK. The uptick was from 428 million units one year ago, to 434.6 million gadgets during Q2.
Ken Hyers is a Strategy Analytics analyst. He noted that while Huawei set a record high during Q2, Microsoft's market share slid to 6.4 percent, which was almost a record low for the Washington-based company.
Hyers noted in a statement that Huawei's sales are increasing quickly in all of the world's regions. That is especially true in China where the 4G models are "wildly popular," according to NewsFactor.
Huawei reported that smartphones made up 80 percent of its mobile phones shipped during Q2. The demand for handsets is down in China, the United States, and Europe. That caused the meager 2 percent growth in the world's smartphone market.
Samsung stayed in the top spot, shipping 89 million phones during the past quarter. That was 20.5 percent of the total market share.
Meanwhile, Apple stayed in the second spot, delivering 47.5 million phones during Q2. It comprised 10.9 percent of the Q2 worldwide market.
Huawei Technologies was founded in 1987. Last year it earned $46.5 billion in revenue.
